Bristow Photos

[Tail-take-off]

The "Bristow Ops Unst-Ninian Field 1977-1993" (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=285535&highlight=unst+ninian) thread got me thinking there must be loads of interesting photos out there which most of us have not seen. www.skyweaver.co.uk (http://www.skyweaver.co.uk) is an excellent place for BHL nostalgia but has not been updated for a while and Dave says it probobly never will be.

So if you have anything interesting you wish to share post it here. Please include photos of aircraft, people & places as well as anecdotes.

Here are some of mine to get us going:

Estancia Road, Falklands
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/EstanciaRoadFalklands1990.jpg

Stanley Harbour, Falklands
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/S61Dornier228StanleyHarbour1990.jpg

Spitzbergen
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BHOHinSpitzbergen1996.jpg

Barentsberg, Spitzbergen
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/BarentsbergRussianCoalminingsettlem.jpg

Aberdeen Harbour
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BHOHAberdeenHarbour1996.jpg

Norsk Colours
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BHOFinNorskcolours.jpg

Crew Transport, Falklands
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/TheGravyBoatFalklands1991.jpg

I have more if anyone is interested!

[jonnyloove]

FANTASTIC photos well done mate! whats up with the jazzy paint job on the norsk 61??

[Tail-take-off]

It was one of the first 2 aircraft to go to Norsk, an S61 and an AS332. The orange stripes were thought to be latest thing in Scandanavian design at the time. Funny enough they didn't last long & neither did the S61. It was back in Aberdeen about a year later!

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/NorskTiger.jpg

[jonnyloove]

Keep the pics coming tail take off!!
Dont suppose you have any pics off the AS332L1 that belong to General Norieaga? (forgive the spelling)::D

[forget]

Bristow’s photos! Great idea, which must add to the excellent Bristow web site. The one below, from the site, got my attention. Sumatra 72. I’d flown out to the Total rig site with Tony S that morning. He’d dropped me off and gone to haul fuel drums from the river. On his first return, and hover, the tail rotor drive let loose. There he was, 60 feet up, doing a rev per second. He crossed his fingers, closed his eyes, and dumped it - onto piled logs. Bits of MR blade flying everywhere and it was I then decided that my running towards it wasn’t too smart.

Anyway, the dust settled and out got Tony, broken wrist only. So there we were at a jungle site, 80 miles from base, and no comms at all. After a Pernod stiffener from the French rig crew I crawled into the wreck and ripped out the HF; the lot, racks, boxes and wiring, and sat the bits on top of a Caterpillar. A local guy climbed a tree and hung a long wire antenna. The Cat battery was connected and a few wires twisted together, those that flashed too much were ignored or disconnected, and a head-seat wired up.

Well I’ll be! Raised Djambi base at first call. I got the Ch Eng, on the line to tell him of the mishap. ‘Can’t be that bad’, he says, ‘if you’re talking on its HF’.

‘Only the HF is here. The other bits of the helicopter are between 50 and a 200 yards away’.

Can’t remember if it was Bravo Whisky or Bravo Vodka, one of the two.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/trfailure-1.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

JonnyLoove

Funny enough I only have a few pictures of AS332s but one of them is G-BTCT which was Norieaga's. Sorry about the poor picture quality - cheep camera cheeper scanner!

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BTCT.jpg

[jonnyloove]

I wonder where she is flying now???? do you have any off those fantastic EH-101's bristow had on trial back in the late 90's????
fantastic effort mate!!

Mr loove

[Tail-take-off]

G-BTCT now in Australia registered VH-BHY. Couple of Pictures her from the web both taken in Perth:

Initially painted like this in a recent overseas clour scheme:

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/middle/2/3/2/0489232.jpg

Now painted up in the latest worldwide clours

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/middle/3/7/2/1220273.jpg

[Langball]

Re VH-BHY. Why have the wheel sponsons (spelling?) changed. Is it to accommodate a liferaft or a fuel tank?

[Hippolite]

The larger sponsons are additional fuel tanks for long range ops. The aircraft is currently in Broome, Western Australia flying long sectors. Strangely enough, these sponsons add around 4 KIAS to the cruise speed of the 332L. The life rafts are not in the sponsons in the 332L, one is internal and the other is external on the co pilots side.

[Tail-take-off]

This might get the nostalgia flowing. G-AODA being prepared for her last commercial contract before retiring to Weston-Super-Mare

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-AODA1989priortolastrevenueflights.jpg

And G-AWMK ex Redhill FTS aircraft now in private hands as G-GAND
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-AWMKRedhill1998.jpg

[hico-p]

Forget - it was BW ! Quite exciting to have a tail rotor fail with a load of fuel drums in a net over a larger fuel dump underneath you and in a just cleared jungle site !! Very lucky to get out with two bust ribs - caused , I think, by some very enthusiastic French oil riggers pulling me out of the cockpit - God bless them !! I had two local Indonesian labourers in the cabin - they fled into the jungle and didn't come back for three days !! They shipped the Wessex 60 all the way back from the middle of Sumatra to Farnborough for a detailed investigation. For some reason, I was shipped off to Iran - Bristows moved in mysterious circles in those days !!

[TiPwEiGhT]

Did the Wessex do offshore flights?

[David Eyre]

Hi All,
My Dad (Peter Eyre) worked for Mayne-Bristow Helicopters, which later went back to being Bristow Helicopters Australia.
Mayne-Bristow had a base at Karratha, on the north-west coast of Western Australia. They had contracts flying to oil and LNG rigs off the coast, and contracts to fly marine pilots out to ships entering the nearby port of Dampier. They also operated a Britten-Norman Islander on behalf of West Australian Petroleum (WAPET), to Barrow Island.
Some of my photos of Mayne-Bristow JetRangers, Bell 212s, and SA-330J Pumas (and the WAPET Islander) are hosted on Airliners.Net, taken at Karratha, Western Australia in the 1980s:
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?front=yes&s=1&keywords=mayne-bristow
I also have lots of Mayne-Bristow photos taken by my Dad, but I simply don't have time to scan them all at present.
Regards,
David Eyre
Perth, Western Australia.

[SASless]

During a nice sailing trip with another Bristow pilot a few days ago....and while re-hashing old times....we dredged up a question from Iran days.

The question is why was a humourless Scot called the "Black Sardine"?


There must be a good story there as said dour fellow gets more than a bit miffed when reminded of the name.

It is the same fellow that when it was announced within the North Denes crewroom...."XXXX" fell off a roof and hurt himself....it was greeted with a shouted response...."Nothing minor I hope!"

Can any of the "Old Gang" enlighten us about the Black Sardine moniker?

[Tail-take-off]

TiPwEiGhT

Yes the wessex did do offshore flights. See www.skyweaver.co.uk (http://www.skyweaver.co.uk)

[stacey_s]

alledgedly it was a brand of Iranian tinned fish that he suggested chaps could eat when asked about an increase in living allowance, cos' it was cheaper.

[John Eacott]

Did someone mention Mayne-Bristow engineers :p

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Bristow%20Wessex%2001.jpg

And offshore Wessex ops?

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Bristow%20Wessex%2002.jpg

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Bristow%20Wessex%2003.jpg

A few Nigerian Whirlwind shots: don't you love the floats ;)

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Bristow%20Whirlwind%2001.jpg

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Bristow%20Whirlwind%2002.jpg

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Bristow%20Whirlwind%2003.jpg

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Bristow%20Whirlwind%2004.jpg

and those wonderful winter days in the Brent, daytime bus runs :=

http://www.helicopterservice.com.au/photos/pprune/Brent%20212%20snow.jpg

[he1iaviator]

Guess where?
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/S61NOverStanleyInnerHarbourWreckC19.jpg

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/Rig56MudPitDelivery.jpg

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/LutongPumas.jpg

[Flap 5]

First one is over Stanley Harbour. Last one is Lutong, Sarawak. Not sure about the middle one. With a 212 it's probably Nigeria.

[he1iaviator]

Well done! The middle one is a 205 carrying part of Rig56, Duri, Indonesia, 1982ish
Remember any interesting crew change flights? Here are a few memorable ones I have dug up:
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/GettingThere-BusinessClassontheC130.jpg


http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/GettingThere-C130RefuelsFromVictorT.jpg

Recognise this cockpit?

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/psn00012.jpg

[he1iaviator]

Jerry Beecher, Falklands 1984
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/JerryBeecherFalklands24June1984.jpg

Ron Miles, North Sea 1979
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/NoToolsRonMileshaslunchonthewayback.jpg

Garth Parfitt (and friends), Kazakhstan 1998
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/psn00007.jpg

[flyer43]

A few pics I have dragged out of the box. Apologies for the poor quality, but they were taken on the equivalent of a box brownie and the prints have been laying around for years before I scanned them.....

Galeota Point - Trinidad 1985
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l83/Flyer43/BHL%20Pics/GaleotaPt1.jpg

Operating to and from the MSV Tharos circa 1980, when the MSV Tharos came into Peterhead for a refit.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l83/Flyer43/BHL%20Pics/GBCMC.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l83/Flyer43/BHL%20Pics/GBBBBP.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l83/Flyer43/BHL%20Pics/GBFER.jpg

[Flap 5]

I checked my log book and I flew with Jerry down there on one day in November '84. In 'our day' we went down in a C-130 and tankered off another C-130. :yuk:

Those pictures look like you had shear looxury. :) I remember sitting next to a spare Spey engine for a Phantom.

[212man]

Interesting medlee of pictures!

I did my 212 conversion in G-BBP.

Nice to see Grant Campbell has a beer in hand!

Poor old Girth Parsnip: definitely went before his time. I believe he was a frequenter of these forums (30N?) and was an all round character.

Ron Miles was a true gent, who I admired for his sustained enthusiasm and motivation for his profession, when many of his age were stuck in a rut they'd rather not be in. Sadly it seems he did not share the same for life, but who knows what demons he fought with?

Why is Frankie, from 'Frankie goes to Hollywood,' standing with Garth and Grant? (presumably with a brochette of caviar!!)

[SASless]

Garth last used "Nutcracker 43" in Pprune Land.....his last helicopter flight was in the Huey at Blackpool. He was one of a kind for sure and called home entirely too soon.

I must admit.....the only time I have seen him without a silk dicky (ascot...or whatever you lot call his signature neck garb) was in the posted piccy.

[excrewingbod]

A few photos from ABZ....

G-PUMI - 'Playing' on a Saturday afternoon
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/DarrenBe/Bristows/GPUMI_06012007_042.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/DarrenBe/Bristows/GPUMI_06012007_032.jpg

G-BKFN - End of an era....
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/DarrenBe/Bristows/GBKFN_19092006_011.jpg

G-BGWJ - Never thought I'd see the day that a 61 becomes a rare sight at ABZ.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/DarrenBe/Bristows/GBGWJ_05102006_024.jpg

G-ZZSC - The future
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y205/DarrenBe/Bristows/GZZSC_20122006_001.jpg

[Mr Toad]

Great pics everyone; what a wonderful aircraft the 61 is. Many of the names you all mention were familiar to me although I'd moved across the road by then. The Craighaar and the Sumburgh Club seemed to blur the company differences between us all.

AB206 G-AWMK - Cliff Saffron and I accepted her from Cascina and delivered her to Redhill on 22 August 1968. I had 3 hours on type (with Fred le Grys) and didn't have a clue what was going on; luckily Cliff knew everything!
Somewhere I've got a rather yellow picture of what I did to 9Y-TCZ in Trinidad in 1969 (just before Carnival). Broke her back as well as my own, though I recovered and am still involved in aviation.

I flew the WX 60 offshore briefly with Dick Metcalf - what became of him?
Also the WS 55 Series 3 on floats including water landings into a Norfolk ditch with John Cameron.

Later in BAH I did water landings and rejects into the bay opposite the Sumburgh Hotel in G-BDKI. Presumably the engineers put a stop to this particular form of fun years ago.

Heliaviator nice pic of Ron, God rest him. The green cockpit is a Mil 26 if I remember right (I operated beside them in Zagreb); seems to be in tropical rig with fans. The Zagreb ones (and the small Antonovs) used to go back to Russia for major maintenance, stuffed with radios, tvs etc; when they came back they were stuffed with Georgian champagne, vodka, caviar etc. Our Russian colleagues are very resourceful indeed; luckily they were always generous enough to throw a party. I don't drink vodka anymore but have an Aeroflot tie and wings in compensation.

Compared to our fixed wing contemporaries in the airlines we've had interesting lives; wouldn't change one iota of it.

Best wishes all from Rupert Wilson.

[Wunper]

Not strictly Bristow pictures but probably the time that whetted Mr Bristow's appetite for the 212
Taken during Farnborough week at Blackbushe in 1970 the machine a demo AB212 over from Cascina Costa with Commandante Forzani at the controls.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/wunper/AB212_1970_Blackbushe.jpg
Mr Bristow in the LHS with a suitably dapper Count Corrado Agusta facing the camera , someone on this forum might
recognize the chap in uniform seated in the second row.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/wunper/Count_Corrado_AlanBristowAB212_1970.jpg

[Plank Cap]

Great photos and stories.

Got to say the green / blue cockpit shot is more likely a Tuploev Tu134, rather like the ones Bristow personnel would have occasionally used in and out of the Kazakhstan operation. I asked to visit the flight deck on my last trip home from there in March 2002, and was somewhat surprised to find not two, but FIVE flightdeck crew, including navigator in the glazed nose complete with handheld GPS unit! The little box above the central windscreen area was apparently the autopilot, which every ten seconds or so would give a pronounced kick in yaw........

Was supposed to have flown the then one and only S76 (G-BJFL) back to Redhill from Kazakhstan, but apparently the client was enjoying the aircraft so much alongside the pair of 212s, they extended her contract. Sadly, I had to be back on the day job in the UK..........

[Tail-take-off]

Redhill FTS HP32 course at Outwardbound Ullswater 1988.

Back row L-R: Andy Rowley (now BMED), Chris Hennegan (now Easyjet), Jonathan Huntley, 2 x outwardbound instructors, Simon Hornsby, Nick Bill (now bmi), Julian (Griff) Griffith-Jones,Ian Steward (now Emirates).

Front row L-R: Simon Sorrell, Richard Bissell (Bristow Australia), Wendy Winnard, Karen Wilson (Now BA), Martin Jones (last heard of at BA Connect)
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/HP32.jpg

Max Hoskins (HP31 course) Redhill 1989.
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/MaxHoskinsG-BOEZRedhillFTS1988.jpg

Tony Coleman and an Engineer, Silverstone 1989
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BHOFSilverstone1989.jpg

Robbie & Davy (Aberdeen Engineers), Spitzbergen 1996
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/RobbieDavyAberdenengineersSpitzberg.jpg

Bill Wood, Spitzbergen 1996
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/BillWoodSpitzbergen1996.jpg

L-R: Steve Higgins, Ron Moxham & Bobby Hayles, Falklands 1991
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/SteveHigginsRonMoxhamBobHaylesFalkl.jpg

Don't Fancy yours much! Bobby Hayles & Graham Pearson, Falklands 1991
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/GrahamPearsonBobHaylesFalklands1990.jpg

Dave Gribben & Simon Platt Redhill 1989
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/Bell412G-SPBARedhill1989.jpg

Nick Bill & Michel Zingurevitch, Unst 1996
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/NickBillMichelZinguerevitchUnst1996.jpg

Russ Smith (RIP), Clive Valentine & Colin Clark (seated), Unst
http://209.196.171.35/images/shetlands7.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

I've had a couple of queries on how to post photos. For instructions go to http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=203154

[he1iaviator]

10/10 Plank Cap. It was our TU134 complete with bomb aimer and Garmin 3.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/psn00001-1.jpg

Ergomomic Autopilot..Slight Altitude Change Required:
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/psn00013.jpg

And of course Natasha! Last seen married to Peter Walker in Spain.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/psn00009.jpg

[Hippolite]

Great picture of Ron Miles, what a premature loss as 212man says.

I used to really enjoy flying with Ron on the 332L, he made for such a fun and easy cockpit. As Co-Pilot, on the way out to the ESB, one's most important job was ensuring that Ron was able to collect his daily packet of "biscuits" from the HLO shack. We had some great times and some great laughs, the "top of the box" daily ESB crossword competition was also a fond memory. Ron is one flying "mentor" I shall never forget.

[Mr Toad]

Thanks Heliaviator, clearly a little Tupolev (not many Mils have a yoke). I stand corrected.

[forget]

Thridle Op Des. When you post your url you need to delete the first http://

[Thridle Op Des]

Thanks guys, my first attempt at this photo posting thing, thanks for the patience, there must be a way of posting the actual photo on the site as above, but I suspect that this is frowned upon.

Regards

TOD

[international hog driver]

The place you see faces from the past loved the Redhill FTS HP32 course pic,

Here is Wendy, last in 2004, no points for guessing the company or type but where is it????

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z96/redlum5x5/117-1782_IMG.jpg

[soggyboxers]

Tail take off and Hel1aviator, well done for posting so many good and evocative photos :ok:

212 Man,

You're right; an interesting medley which reminds me of so many old times with Bristow. Poor Jerry Beecher who finally succumbed to skin cancer some years back, RIP. I remember meeting Garth when I was on exchange to the crabs many years ago and there was a story then that he had been flying an Alouette with a hydraulic failure, but being big and strong, had landed it successfully, albeit with a bent collective! It's probably apocryphal, but witn Garth's colourful character, who knows? He was a real gentleman, sadly missed.

I did my 212 conversion on G-BARJ with Mike 'British' Holcroft, another gentleman, then set out for Iran ferrying a brand new high-skid 212 VR-BGR.

It's good to see old and new friends again. I know where 'Windsock' is, but what happened to Simon 'Trainset' Hornby double-oh, Hox Maskins, Jonathan Huntly and 'Bex' Bissell carpet shampoomaster? Zingo is also a real gent and last time I met him, at Marignane, was exactly as he's always been, sounding just like Inspector Clouseau.

I'm presently converting what was my study into a nursery, having just become a dad, and I'm sorting many things which have lain unseen in deep drawers for many years. I've found a lot of old photos of my early time in Bristow, so I'll try and scan some of them to post here soon. Great thread :ok:

[212man]

Soggy, max is senior pilot for the Dorset police flight, and a frequenter of this forum (I'll leave it to him to out himself, if he wants too!) Never seen him wearing a toupee before though;)

Bex is back in Australia, and a TRE I believe.

IHG, I would guess at Cape Town, pilot transfer contract?

[international hog driver]

212..... Nah

Guess again...... further north:E

[212man]

Angola? (She hasn't parked it on the circle very well!)

TOD, use the image icon above (second from right, lower row, with a maountain and a sun image) to then enter the URL, with only one http. Annd you an Airbus driver, tut tut :p

[international hog driver]

:ok: Spot on..... you are ...not her:}

Soyo base, the 212 was ferrying to Malabo so we had a play for a bit....;)

[SASless]

Soggy,

Perhaps leaving some things deep in yer drawers might have obivated the need for the nursery?













Well....not "deep" really.

[Gabra1]

This thread has certainly brought back fond memories of my stint with Bristow from the mid 70s to early 80s. Here are some of my photos:


1. 9M AVP - Kuala Terengganu 1977
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/1095118144_08e5226738_o.jpg


2. PK HBK lifting a Schlumberger unit - Duri 1978
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1065/1094263305_4189cc1a46_o.jpg


3. PK HCC - Duri 1978
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1353/1095125486_258e3d1c78_o.jpg


4. PK HBK on a winching exercise. Duri 1978. Winch Operator is Mike Grinstead. Photographed by Arty Rochwiyanto
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1319/1094265437_7d3402dcb5_o.jpg


5. PK HCE on a winching exercise. Duri 1978. Photographed by John Shaw.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1087/1095129922_bf35c8e662_o.jpg

[soggyboxers]

Wow, some great photos posted here today. SAS, been digging around in my drawers (no, the other ones, not my soggy boxers :E) and found a few. I'll scan some more another day:
I've got some more, flying ones from Prakla somewhere, which I'll look out. 1978, Prakla Iran:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/PraklaIran1978.jpg
Also in Iran, Kharg Island, just before an ill-fated flight to remove a flare boom tip, which resulted in the tip hanging on to the top of the tower by just one bolt!
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/KhargIsland1978.jpg
Treasure Finder 1983:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/TreasureFinder1983.jpg
Brent 1983:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/Brent21983.jpg
A Brent sunset:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/Brent1983.jpg
This was the state-of-the art cockpit for the LN450 SAR 212s which Bristow developed in cooperation with Louis Newmark and was the precursor for the LN400 system in the SAR 61s.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BrentSARcockpit1983.jpg
We did a lot of SAR training and responded to quite a lot of SAR callouts considering it was a secondary task. Helicopters were on 15 minutes call to HMCG 24 hours a day:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BrentSARandFlare1983.jpg

[soggyboxers]

Bristow used to do servicing and modifications to Yugoslav police Bell 212s. I had a few comments from Gatwick controllers when doing ILSs into Gatwick with a YU callsign and a British accent:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/YugoslavTitogradMiliccije212Redhill.jpg

We also did some main gearbox overhauls for Okanagan Helicopters. I delivered this one to Liverpool docks for shipment back to Canada:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/OkanaganB212Liverpool1988.jpg

This was the S76 being prepared for the film "The Fourth Protocol':

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/FourthProtocol1987.jpg

Engine-offs were fun in the snow (well. okay, they were always fun :E):

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BobandMattWardRedhillJan87.jpg

It's always a bad idea to let 2 flying instructors go off for a session of engine-offs together :}:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BNBT1988.jpg

Anybody remember the "Chief Barking Instructor' (staff number K9) who used to get taken for 'walkies' by 'Spanners' on many a lunchtime?:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/ChiefBarkingInstructorRedhill.jpg

Here's the original Bell 412 demonstrator which came over for the 1988 Farnborough airshow, then went up to North Denes on a trial for Amoco. I flew with the Bell pilots to familiarise them with the helilanes:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/Bell4121988.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BHOGNinianNorth.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BGWKonHeatherAlpha1995.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BHOGUnst1996.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BDOCSumburgh2.jpg


http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BBVArefuelinginSumburgh1989.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Soggyboxers

You will no doubt have seen this at www.skyweaver.co.uk (http://www.skyweaver.co.uk) but here it is again
http://209.196.171.35/helimage/beas212_big.jpg

Ref your earlier question Simon Hornsby was last heard of at Lee-On-Solent and featured in some of the TV series "Seaside Rescue". However as the Lee contract is ending he will no doubt be back in Aberdeen or Den Helder soon if not continuing at Lee with CHC.

[tascats]

G-BCLC at Sumburgh, 2006

http://www2.propichosting.com/Images/421494094/4.jpg


G-BHBF at Sumburgh, 1991 or '92

http://www2.propichosting.com/Images/450011190/13.jpg

G-TIGH:( at Sumburgh, '91 or '92

http://www2.propichosting.com/Images/450011190/14.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Tascat

To post photos they you need to follow the instructions found here
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=203154

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-AVII001.jpg


http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-BCLC001.jpg


http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-BGWJ001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-BGWK001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-TIGS001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-AODA001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-AZDC001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-APWN001.JPG

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-AVNE001.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/images/gatbz_inv_residen65.jpg

[pumaboy]

HI

Anybody have any pics of the Tigers G-TIGF and GN in China in the period of 1986-1990 as they had a different paint scheme with a scarlet front and rear

Cheers

[forget]

http://209.196.171.35/bases_china.htm

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-BFRI001.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BIBGRedhill1989.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BDIJLee-on-Solent1989.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BCLDonHMSCumberlandFalklands1991.jpg

[he1iaviator]

Brian Pickles
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/BrianPicklesMiri1980.jpg

Harald Pammer
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/HaraldPammerMiri1980.jpg

Colin Gross
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/ColinGrossMiri1980.jpg

Jerry Wheeler
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/JerryWheelerDuriJune1981.jpg

Fernandi
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z78/he1iaviator/Bristow/FernandiDuriC1982.jpg

[Gabra1]

He1iaviator,

Fernandi left flying a long time ago and is now owner and president director of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Jakarta. PM me if you want his contact no.

[Blackhawk9]

Harald Pammer retired from CHC Australia last year lives in Perth W.A.
Havn't got his phone or address on me.

[TipCap]

Simon Hornsby is Deputy Chief Pilot HMCG Flight at Lee-on-the Solent

Brian Pickles is flying As332L's with CHC Scotia in Aberdeen

[Owl 83]

To all,

This is a great thread with so many folks adding pic's. Certainly brings back the memories of times long ago. Reminds me of an old expression my Grandmother used to use, "Ve get too soon old und too late schmart"!
Congratulations to SoggyBoxers on his new little "aviator"!

Owl

[hico-p]

Some Trinidad and Djambi shots from the early 70's.
Anyone know where Bill Wood is nowadays ?

Mayaro hangar
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z155/hico-p/Bristow/Mayarohangar.jpg


http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z155/hico-p/Bristow/Mayaro-9YTDA.jpg

Djambirig site
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z155/hico-p/Bristow/djambirigsite.jpg





Links fixed.
Heliport

[Heliport]

Thriddle Op Des
..... there must be a way of posting the actual photo on the site as above, but I suspect that this is frowned upon.

Frowned upon???!!! :confused:
I edited your first post to tell you how to do it, but you've deleted the post.
If all else fails, follow the instructions. ;)

Posting pictures hosted on Photobucket couldn't be easier.

Below each photo there is a box titled "IMG Code - Forums and Bulletin Boards"
Left-click on the contents of that box and everything you need will be copied. A yellow flag pops up saying 'Copied'.
Paste what you've copied into your post in this forum.
Press 'Submit Reply' and your picture will appear.Here are the pics you were trying to post.



Engineer on Chopper Bike
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/EngineeronChopperBikePS1.jpg


Bell 205A Spray Bucket
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/Bell205ASprayBucketPS1.jpg


Bell 205A at Piarco Airport
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/Bell205AatPiarcoAirportPS1.jpg


Aerial View of Base inTrinidad
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/AerialViewofBaseinTrinidadPS1.jpg



Galeota Point Hanger
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/GaleotaPointHangerPS1.jpg

[212man]

Heliport, you need to make allowances for TOD: he used to be 'one of us' but sadly had a mid-life crisis and is now an A340 captain! :E

[Tail-take-off]

From various places on the internet. Right click image & check properties for sources.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/HM_Coast_Guard_G-BDIJ.png

http://www.truphotography.co.uk/images/FBBS-DGA48640%20CLA.jpg

G-ASTP


http://avia.russian.ee/monino/helicoptermuseum/helicopter_16.jpg

http://www.airpixbycaz.freeuk.com/ac10-gavne-bristow-wessex60lgw1973.jpg

http://batfredland.free.fr/Cpp_15_bisAlouette3Bristow800.jpg

Hmm? Something is not quite right here!
http://www.silentthundermodels.com/custom_models/images/helicopters/S61N_bristow_01_700w.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Rotorheads/NorthSea1.jpg

[Richard Taylor]

There's something not quite right about the model of G-TIGL.

Hmm......................:}

[Tail-take-off]

TZSX5udm8jk

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.airliners.net/photos/middle/6/3/7/1245736.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Could it be the rearward facing pitot tubes? I know they were slow but we usually made some forward progress.

[forget]

How about the TIG Reg on an S-61. ;)

Bristow Helicopters
Aerospatiale AS-332L1 Super Puma
G-TIGL (cn 2050) Manufactured 1982. Named 'Portsoy'.

[Tail-take-off]

Ex Westland demonstrator G-ASWI

http://www.airliners.net/photos/middle/5/5/9/0353955.jpg

and ex G-BAWJ

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/middle/5/3/6/1160635.jpg

[forget]

Interesting shot of PK-HBV. Where was that taken? Certainly not Sumatra, its usual home. The aircraft was ex Brunei Air Wing. Note the very innovative position of the HF Antenna, under the tail boom, instead of flapping around sticking out of the front. I know the guy who did that very very well, and it worked a treat even stuck into jungle mud. The spacer was a hand carved teak wedge ordered with ‘approved’ drawings from a furniture shop in Jalan Kayu. :ok:

[Tail-take-off]

Interesting shot of PK-HBV. Where was that taken?


Toussus-le-Noble (LFPN) May 1973 I guess on a ferry flight.

[Taff Missed]

Helipilot (or thriddle des ops)

The 205 at Piarco is actually a 204B. Either 9Y-TDZ or TEA.

Happy days.

Taff

[Tail-take-off]

Please keep posting the photos. The addition of a few anecdotes has, however, made this thread all the more interesting. More Please:ok:

Can anyone recall the story of the North Denes aircraft that diverted form a ground run?

[forget]

hico-p, Your post 64; the two guys with backs to the camera - I'd say, left, Pete Frean, right, Jock Swainson.

[Tail-take-off]

Lemmy Tanner
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/LemmyTanner.jpg

Simon Hoare
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/SimonHoare.jpg


http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/000/664/336/013.jpg

[Presstransdown]

Great thread,
Does anyone know what John Ridings is up to now.
I think I last worked with him in the Falklands.
And what about that other real gent, John Hall.
Cheers

[212man]

Can anyone recall the story of the North Denes aircraft that diverted form a ground run?

Well, the pilot concerned is certainly a Ppruner, maybe he can recount the tale :)

[Tail-take-off]

John Ridings is currently living in Venezuela. If you want to get in touch with him I have a fairly recent email address. PPRUNE mail me & I'll send it on or go to:
http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/friendsreunited.asp?WCI=OTHERPROFILE&backname=Bristow+Helicopters&member_key=76211916
where you can get in touch

TTO

[Thridle Op Des]

Sorry, just got back from a glamorous (not) two day trip. Thanks to Heliport for the help - I did follow the instructions - at least I thought I did, but it got to the point of not wishing to further embarass my self. As 212man insinuates, there is a certain amount of irreversible surgery which takes place when you lurch to the dark side - wait till he gets my age.

Thanks also to Taff for the 204 spot (miss Taff as well- does any one have a photo?) and anyone own up to owning a chopper in Trinidad?

TOD

[Tail-take-off]

Thride Op Des

I think the trouble is that Photobucket have changed the layout of their site since the instructions were written. What you need to do is look below the thumbnails in your albumn and click where it says the words "Direct link" (not the url itself) and it will automatically copy the url ready to paste into the insert image box on pprune.

If you have any more photos keep adding them here!

Thanks.

TOD

PS how is life in the desert?

[Thridle Op Des]

Deep breath - here are a few more scanned from a dusty archive of slides, lets hope this works!

For 212man, those awful Shell helidecks in Miri, i'm suprised a few wheels didn't fall off, it was a bit of an art to try to wiggle a 330J in between the logs without rolling it over (or at least feeling it would do so).
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/Puma330JMiri.jpg


Pete Cawthorn & AN Other in Duri 1986.
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/PeteCawthorn.jpg


Andy Redfern - Miri 1982
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/AndyRedfern.jpg


Salt of the Earth in Miri 1981
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/EngineerinMiri1981.jpg


Another heli/heli lift, this time in Trinidad 1988, Long Ranger had engine failure after crossing the beach, did a great job of ditching it, we put it back, Dave Atkinson (God Bless) was in the back watching it like a hawk for the quick circuit around Galeota Point.
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/HelinLift-Trinidad.jpg



Desert be hot, it 'cooled down' to 37 this morning when I arrived, feel sorry for the Aero Gulf boys.
Regards
TOD

[Thridle Op Des]

Since that worked (thanks Tail-Take-Off, you were right), here are a few more contemporary shots.


Some one trying to hover an EC155
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/EC1555.jpg


Dink in Eket (where else?)
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/Dink.jpg


Ch Eng Eket demonstrating the size of something - I forget what it was for the moment with curious volunteer. Winching Exercise 2002.
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/Winching004.jpg


PB looking on during the same.
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/Winching003.jpg


SMT on the Idaho 2002
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa266/thridleopdes/5N-AXXOnIdohoSMT1.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/LandroverLift.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/Towing.jpg

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BALZRedhill1989.jpg
more G-BALZ pictures here:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=280743&highlight=G-BALZ

[HughMartin]

Bristow ramp at Dubai 1976
http://www.hughmartin.btinternet.co.uk/dubairamp.jpg/

[Gabra1]

More pictures from Duri & Muaratembesi:

Chunky Lord fast asleep!! - Duri 1979
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1364/1155549483_55dc29798d_o.jpg

Tony Sollitt and Alan Boswell in Muaratembesi (1980?)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/1156402668_ffa861a86d_o.jpg

Rokan 1 used as temporary base and accommodation for seismic work in Muaratembesi (1979)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1242/1155551355_ee05cedaaf_o.jpg

Muaratembesi heliport 1980
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1226/1156404556_b9ee5ac7d8_o.jpg

Duri heliport 1979
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1129/1155553443_56540a441f_o.jpg

Duri crew. Can't remember all their names anymore!! Anyone can help?
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1251/1155554597_d3cf8d053e_o.jpg

[phive]

It must have been HBW! And probably between 8 March '72 and 16th when I was in S'pore. After that BW disappears from my log book and BQ replaces it!!

[forget]

Wow! This borders on the spooky. I decided to look under the stairs; found the old Canon projector and boxes of slides. I haven't seen some of these in 25 years. Plugged in the Canon and the first one ...below... before her little tantrum. More to come, but I'm photographing them off the side of the fridge. There must be an easier way.

Russ Smith flying, Mike Grinstead in the back. Djambi 71/72

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/wessex1.jpg

[forget]

From under the stairs ...........
hico-p, Seems you did a better job of putting down Hotel Bravo than we'd thought. You thought fuel drums - I thought logs. You managed to dump her in the only clear space in 50 miles.:ok:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/wessex2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/wessex4.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/wessex3.jpg

PS. Looking at the last one -- you were right about the fuel drums, or was that your load? Well you got it there; what more do they want?

[Owl 83]

5N-SKY in Calabar just prior to S-76 ops closing in 1998.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1196/1162260479_d7dabc1c5e_o.jpg

[GoodGrief]

That duri crew guy to the right looks a bit like Patrick Corr ?

[demon_duck]

Looks like Ferdi, Flori, (not sure) and Resty from L to R.

[he1iaviator]

The matsalleh is Steve Walker.

[bluesafari]

Sorry, these should have been on North Sea thread, I know North Scottish is nothing to with Bristow, I will try to pay more attention next time.




I've moved them for you.
Heliport

[Heliport]

How to Post Pictures (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=145070)


Posting Pictures from Photobucket (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=288582)

[flyer43]

Paul Weddick and Fred Kissinger on a Cricket Pitch near Galeota Point Trinidad, circa 1985, while preparing the BHL spy glider for operations in the area.
Fred is preparing the secret launching device - which actually worked!! Said glider became airborne, turned downwind and then hurtled groundwards in an amazing display of accuracy...... much to the delight of the Trini's settling into their seats for the Cricket Match due to start later......

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l83/Flyer43/BHL%20Pics/P_Weddick.jpg

[jonnyloove]

Does anyone have any pics off the EH-101's bristows had on trials back in the mid 90's:)

[Phone Wind]

You mean that Paul Weddick is a real, live human being - with legs no less!!! :E

[Droopy]

Fred Kiss....it wasn't until my son started watching Futurama that I realised his retirement job.....
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/chestnut1675/Janitor.jpg

[phive]

Still struggling with pics -maybe this will work! BW and BV and Jock Swainson flying!
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd136/pandjfrean/DjambiWessex002-1.jpg
(file:///Users/peterjulietfrean/Desktop/%5BIMG%5Dhttp-::i227.photobucket.textClipping)

[Heliport]

phive

I don't know what to say. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Rotorheads/dunno.gif

You're still not inserting the code (web address) of an image file on the internet. Read the Instructions.
The code doesn't end in either .jpg, .bmp or .gif. Read the Instructions (and my note added to your previous post).
The code you have inserted is enclosed by URL boxes. It shouldn't be. Read the Instructions.
Read the Instructions - and follow them stage by stage.

Don't give up.
Once you've posted a picture successfully, you'll wonder why you couldn't do it the first time. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Rotorheads/ComputerSmiley.gif




H.

[Tail-take-off]

This picture from Speacless two via http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=287883 got me thinking why not include the companies aquired by BHL? They are certainly a large part of what made Bristows what it is. So any Fison's Airwork, BEAS, B.Cal. etc photos & anecdotes pleas add them here too!:)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/Mearns/BEAS-Brochure.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://64.34.169.161/ifolio_files/file_gallery/Screenshot_Gallery/Contest_Screenshots/Amethyst_Moonrise.jpg

[soggyboxers]

Jemy,

There have indeed been many variations on the good old yard of ale. I well remember a course of pilots from a Middle Eastern country doing their command training on the 212 who tried a yard of Guinness - very messy :} Pastis and tonic was my preference. It's a shame the Training School was closed down as so many good young men and women who passed through it have since done very well both in Bristow and other companies.

[Fareastdriver]

Gotta hand it to you, Tail take off. That 61 moon shot's a classic.

[soggyboxers]

S2, seems many of us have visited our lofts! :)

Bell 47G2 Redhill FTS 1975

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/RedhillFTSOct75.jpg


Forties Delta, May 1976:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/FortiesDeltaMay1976.jpg


G-BCDE on Forties C, May 1976:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/GBCDEFortiesCMay1976.jpg


Prakla 2, Royan Iran, 1978:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/RoyanIran1978.jpg


Shell Warri, 1978:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BristowS55ShellWarri1978.jpg


5N-ALF, Shell Warri 1978:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/5N-ALFShellWarri1978.jpg


The EH101 Heliliner visits Redhill for Helitech 1989:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/EH101RedhillHelitech1989.jpg


The Warri Texaco Surfers Club out for another night session to upset Tyreburst, 1992:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/WarriTexacoNightSurfingClub1992.jpg

[ChatteringNut]

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LeighB_photos/CAJOffshoreSummer.jpg


http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LeighB_photos/Eketc1999.jpg

A couple of old Bristow pictures.....

[Salusa]

Chatteringnut,

Is that Eric Scard second from left?

[phive]

Hi moderator - I think I may have got it that time. Thanks if I did! I did read the instructions a million times but don't always understand the jargon ... sorry!
P

[soggyboxers]

Salusa,
That is indeed Eric in chatteringnut's photo.

S58ET G-BCTX, Figuera da Foz Portugal 1977 (in support of Shell's last offshore well in Portugal):
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/GBCTXFigueradaFozPortugal1977.jpg


Another of the Queen of the Skies in Figuera:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/GBCTXPortugal1977.jpg


Bristow Islander, Lagos 1978:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BristowLagosIslander1978.jpg


Bowmen of the Niger Delta, Shell Warri 1978:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BowmenoftheNigerDeltaWarriShell1978.jpg


Shell Warri helipad 1978:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BristowShellWarri1978.jpg

[forget]

...............as one, a zillion Rotorheads sighed in relief. p.hive has cracked posting photographs. :D:D:D Now where's the rest? Jock Swainson. Over twice my age at the time; loved the guy.

[soggyboxers]

Prakla Seismos near Manjil Dam, Iran 1978:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/PraklaSeismosNearManjilDam1978.jpg

Prakla Seismos, Soltaniyeh, Iran 1978. The aircraft were fitted with groundwave and skywave detectors and the long boom extending forward of the nose was the MAD detector.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/PraklaSeismosSoltaniyeh1978.jpg

Jim Jacobs, Steve Wright, Bob Evans, Trevor Judd, Soltaniyeh Iran, 1978

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/PraklaSeismosRoyanCrew1978.jpg

[ChatteringNut]

Salusa, yes SoggyBoxers has already confirmed it's Eric. He's still in Eket.

The first picture yesterday of LZ-CAJ is on the deck of the Ocean Liberator offshore Bulgaria in the Black Sea in 1993.

Bells in the Eket Hangar, QIT
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LeighB_photos/EketHangar.jpg

5N-AOF in the old colours
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LeighB_photos/5N-AOF.jpg

5N-AOF in the newer colours, pre re-branding exercise
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc218/LeighB_photos/5N-AOFnewpaint.jpg

[SASless]

That would be Eric "Cuddles" S Guard would it not?

[whitus1]

Hiya, i live just outside norwich airport and work on the airport at a flying club, and i see bristows all the time, and it is very interesting to see the picture of that bell 206 jetranger, the oldest jetranger in the uk is owned by bristow helicopters and is based at Norwich, and do you know a pilot called Dave higgins?

[monkey_wrench]

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee317/monkey_wrench_photos/EricMPA4.jpg

[mazakari]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/mazakari/s61.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/mazakari/s76.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/mazakari/Helicopters001a.jpg


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/155Snow002small.jpg


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/S61003.jpg


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/EC155B1017.jpg


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/IMG_2733.jpg


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/EC155B1020.jpg


http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/EC155B1022small.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/mazakari/sunset1a.jpg

[monkey_wrench]

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee317/monkey_wrench_photos/EricDet.jpg
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee317/monkey_wrench_photos/MotleyCrew.jpg

Guess which ones are next to go on leave!

[Tail-take-off]

Henry Boyt
http://www.helicas.co.uk/henry.jpg

Mike Norris
http://www.helicas.co.uk/norris.JPG

John Black
http://www.helicas.co.uk/john%20black.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

More Bristow photos at Rowan Greenwood's website (http://www.ragphoto.com/flightcollection/index.htm)

[Tail-take-off]

0 out of 10, I know, for artistic content but this is the back of Malcolm Soper (RIP)

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BGWKcockpit-1.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Ahh Mount Caroline. I remember it well. I think that I only landed facing in the direction shown in your photo Jemy. As I recall the prevailing wind generally dictated landing with the nose hanging over the escarpment. Not easy (for me anyway) with a howling gail blowing up the hill.

I am somewhat overwhelmed by the response to my origional post. Thanks everyone. Please do keep them comming!

[soggyboxers]

Jemy,
There was a time when the only landings on the Brent Spar at night were done by the 212s as its unusual motion and strange crane positioning could catch out pilots who didn't land there on a very regular basis, and even with the 212's there was a tail strike on the crane by Clanger L, a very experienced 212 pilot and TRE. We even used to shut down on there and I found the motion made me feel quite sick in a fairly short time.
Does anyone know what dear old Henry Boyt is doing now? His dog and mine (and occasionally Henry and I) used to share an office many years back when he was running the British Gas pipeline survey operation. Mike Ginn was also based there then.
I've been doing more clearing to prepare a nursery and have found some more old photos. I'll try and scan them if I have time over the wekend.

[Tail-take-off]

Soggy

That bunch of photos came from:
http://www.helicas.co.uk/

which I think is run by Henry. Try this email link:
[email protected]
(mailto:[email protected])

[POLESTAR]

Kosovo 1999
Back L-R Pete Cole,Barney ? ,Ian Campbell,Mike Stern,Roger Asbey,UN Bloke,Fred Dunne.
Front L-R Richard Norris,Guy Heard,John McDonough,Andy Shaw,John Grant.
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/kosovo.jpg
Flying over the chicken factory the Serbs used to hide in! UN put an end to that!!
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/helipic1.jpg
Loadmaster for the day Ian Campbell
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/ian.jpg
Fred had a hard day!
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/fred.jpg
So did Guy
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/guy.jpg
So did Jamie!
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/jamie.jpg
John Grant & Eric Pashley
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/ericpash.jpg
Richard Norris & Alun Tink
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/norris.jpg
Camp Brazda
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/brazda1.jpg
OPS. Jamie Jamieson & Richard Norris
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/ops.jpg
Lunch time !!
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/rich.jpg
A Serious Alun Tink & Loadmaster for the day John Grant
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/tink.jpg
Andy Shaw and his Sumburgh Hotel t-shirt
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/shaw.jpg
Food drop
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/village.jpg
Another food drop
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/kosovo1.jpg

[3D CAM]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/HMBefore.jpg
Rescue Hotel Mike


http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/HMAfter1.jpg
After In Flight Engine Fire and landing at Poole Royal Marine Barracks


http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/HMAfter2.jpg
All Crew walked, well actually legged it, away from this unscathed.

[BASys]

Hi Folks

Tail-take-off -
Cheers for including that stunning pic. :oh:

She's definitely a Bristow's bird.

Bristow S61N G-BGWJ arriving at Amethyst A1D, (20:01 2nd Sept 2004),
36 NM due East of Humberside airport, England.

Most flattering to have one's pics included in such illustrious company. :)



However
not everything is as it might seem. :uhoh:

Please see The Offshore Development Group (http://www.fs-odg.com)
and specifically - Amethyst Moonrise (http://www.fs-odg.com/index.php?ind=gallery&op=foto_show&ida=8)

Unfortunately
It's a screenie from our ODG sceneries package in FS2002. :O



Superb content Gents,
please continue to post them.



ATB
Paul

EDIT Corrcted piccie URL

[soggyboxers]

Treasure Finder 1991:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/TreasureFinderalongsideBrentC1991.jpg
Brent SAR training 1991:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/BrentSAR1991.jpg
5N-BLDY Den Helder 1992. Bristow had a Bell 212 based offshore on the NAM K14, nominally for day/night SAR, but mostly used for shuttles and crew changes.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/GBLDYDenHelder1991.jpg
5N BAK parked on Funiwa production deck, Nigeria 1992:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/5NBAKFuniwaproductiondeck1992.jpg
5N BAK in Fishtown, Nigeria 1992. back in the days when we regularly visited the local villages before the 1999 hijackings:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/FishtownNigeria1992.jpg
5N AOV Funiwa, Nigeria 1992:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/5NAOVonFumiwa1992.jpg
Old Warri Texaco yard 1992. At that time we had 2 AS355s, 3 212s and a 206 there:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/OldTexacoYardWarri1992.jpg
House 17 Warri Texaco 1992, Keith Roberts and Pete Cawthorne:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/evansniger/House17WTKeithRobertsPeteCawthorne1.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Some great photos of HM. It had a very colourful career for a 61 (North Sea, Falklands, Maldives on lease, Kosovo, & SAR). Real shame about it's sad demise!

[Ships Cat]

Fond memories of operating from both the Treasure Finder and Safe Gothia.

Following up on this excellent post, when did Malcolm Soper cross over the bar?

[Tail-take-off]

Sadly Malcolm Soper died from a stroke a few years ago, not long after he retired from BHL. He was my chief pilot in Aberdeen for much of my time there. A true gentleman of the kind you just don't get these days. As well as flying the line with him on many ocassions he once took me up for some aerobatics in his beloved chipmunk which he kept at Perth.

http://www.caa.co.uk/applicationmodules/ginfo/ginfo_photo.aspx?regmark=G-ALWB&imgname=G-ALWB001&imgtype=jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m176/jonlondon451/Bristowsa.jpg

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m176/jonlondon451/G-BVKRa.jpg

[212man]

S2, nice shot of Lancing College too!

[VALALTA]

Soggy
That pic of house 17 is obviously before you redecorated it much the displeasure of Kermit.
Oh happy days

[Hippolite]

Tail Take Off

You are right, Malcom Soper was a true gent. His reading of the S61N checklist item "tail wheel lock" with the emphasis on the "h" in wheel will always be remembered fondly.

Speechless Two

I believe it was Russ Smith who lost the top of his cockpit in the late 70s. He used to tell the tails of that exploit when we used to fly from Unst in the early 80s. Another gent to fly with.

Memories!

[Tail-take-off]

It was indeed Russ Smith who cut the top of S-61 G-AZNE.

Not a great quality pic but this was the result.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/Rotorheads/sinking61.jpg

[ramblingrotors]

Yes, the good old Shoreham Airport, Lancing College and BATB. That aircraft was in Singapore 9V-BMN early 80s for a few years before it went back to Evergreen.

[Jemy]

Whilst doing "Death by Onion" caught in Blizzard and had to shut down. Aircraft sunk into the peat and had to be dug out the following day.
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd225/gordybaird/29BoggedHeli.jpg

[Jemy]

The Dig Out Crew
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd225/gordybaird/DigoutCrew.jpg
Jim Hosie, Bobby Hayles, Gordon Baird, Simon Wilton, Gordon Forsyth, Paul Griffin, Davie Fallon

[3D CAM]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/UnstHangar.jpg
Unst hangar.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/UNST1981.jpg
Wating for the next rotation.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/KCUNST.jpg
Also waiting.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/KCUNST002.jpg
On the way to the Ninian, again!
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/KCUNST001.jpg
B/Cal. used to drop in for fuel occasionally. The late Bob Rusk, another premature and tragic loss, is on his way to ground run the BHL. S61.

[Tail-take-off]

Mike Griffin
http://www.ukfsc.co.uk/Images/Mike%20Griffin%20Pic%20(head%20only).jpg

Bill Deacon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/415000/images/_416957_billdeacongreenlily150.jpg

John Grantham (Obituary & more photos here) (http://www.tiffs4ever.com/lestweforget.htm)
http://www.tiffs4ever.com/John%20Grantham/Coggy,11Feb.2005%20%28Medium%29.JPEG

[3D CAM]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/KZUnst.jpg
SA330J
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/RIUnstCement.jpg
If you look closely, you will see RI is covered in cement dust. It was on the helideck when the cement/mud pipe burst. It took two days to get it cleaned and back on line.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/RIonNinianNorth.jpg
Shut down for the night while shuttling in the mid nineties.http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/RIicedup.jpg
A little light icing. Piccie was taken 15 minutes after shutdown and 10 in the hangar!!
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff154/3DCAM/RIandcrewandengs.jpg
Steve Harrison, Michel Zinguerevitch, Pete Cole & Kevin Pickereing.

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/images/gaoda_andtank.jpg

http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/images/gaoda_baecam30a.jpg

http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/images/gaodabae40.jpg

http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/images/gaoda75.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Some interesting stuff here:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=Bristow%20Helicopters&u=operator

http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?page=1&q=Bristow%20Helicopters&u=operator

http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?page=2&q=Bristow%20Helicopters&u=operator

[bellboy]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff150/jamiehelicopter/P6200118.jpg
Running in Jun 07 De Castro / Kelly / Cruz / Jamieson

[bellboy]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff150/jamiehelicopter/P8190168.jpg
Mike Shak' departing Calibar Addax Base.

[bellboy]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff150/jamiehelicopter/P7230162.jpg
5N-Sky at Shell IA PH Jul 07
A small selection of obstructions visible.

[bellboy]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff150/jamiehelicopter/P4190043.jpg
155s waiting for pax at Osubi Warri. Operations have just moved back to Shell IA
in Warri.

[Tail-take-off]

From Bellbuy's post on G-BALZ thread (http://http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=280743):

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff150/jamiehelicopter/P6200109.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

Bellboy or anyone else who might know.

How many 212s do Bristows still operate? Which are they and where?

[bellboy]

As Far as I am aware there are three 212s still in Civy registration G-BFER and G-BALZ in Mauritania with G-BIXV in Kazakhstan.

[Tail-take-off]

Thanks bellboy. What about the overseas registered ones? Have they all been disposed of?

Here is an unusual one of G-BFER taken in Svalbard in 2004 apparently
http://breogfjellsport.no/files/pictures/upload/svalbard2004_utklipp5-2_800.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.braithwaite71.fsnet.co.uk/misc3.jpg

http://www.braithwaite71.fsnet.co.uk/misc1.jpg

http://www.braithwaite71.fsnet.co.uk/misc4.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-ASYW001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-AVKS001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-AXKW001.jpg

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-AXKX001.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

VR-BIG over Lake Kutabu with a cement hopper (C1986)


http://209.196.171.35/images/png_ar4.jpg

http://209.196.171.35/images/png1.jpg

[helifixer]

http://http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff218/helifixer/?action=view&current=barrow034.jpg

[Tynecastle]

T-t-o.
That looks like the hangar in Tari, worked there in 87/88 for BP with a 332 C model.
Cheers,
TC.

[he1iaviator]

It was very kind of T-T-O to post some of my photos. It was the hangar in Poroma, probably taken in 1986. The Puma Js and BV107s moved from Tari to Poroma in 86 working for Chevron.

[Tail-take-off]

he1iaviator I hope you don't mind me posting your pics on this thread. I saw them elsewhere on pprune & thought them an interesting addition to those already here.

I've been in touch with some ex BHL people who are going to send me some of their photos to post but in the mean time if you or anyone else has anymore keep adding them.

thanks

TTO

[Bernouli's what?]

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v142/118/114/571987173/n571987173_355371_8813.jpg

Just been having a browse through this thread and thought that some of you may be interested to see this.
It's ZH 814 owned and maintained by FBH, operated by the AAC in Brunei. In former lives it was in Bristow's colours and registered as (amongst others) VR-HGL, EP-HBU and G-BGMH. My collegues and I fly this and 2 others now (814 has 30,000 hrs+!) and I'm trying to have a print made featuring this one as it's our oldest. If anyone out there can provide any accurate history for it, it would be much appreciated. I've asked FBH themselves but they're obviously too busy to get back to me (probably trying to source another 212 since we lost one in Belize last month!)
Happy flying! :cool:

[Tail-take-off]

Bernouli's what?

I may be doing something wrong (i'm not very familiar with face book) but I can't access your picture without logging on to face book which i can't do because I'm not a member.

Try right clicking on the image, selecting properties, highlighting the url address shown & copying it. then edit your post, clicking the insert image icon:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/images/editor/insertimage.gif
and entering the copied url there.

Then we should all be able to see it.

looking at the url you supply it may be very similar to this one:

http://www.7newsbelize.com/grc/news/090505b.jpg

This is the Bell 212 31170 ZJ965 ex 9V-BMG, ex 5N-ALS, ex G-BJGU, w/o 05/09/2007 in Belize

see Bell 212 crash - Belize (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=291188&highlight=bell+belize)thread for more details

From the same thread there is also this the sister ship:
ZJ964 s/n 31171 ex 9V-BMH, ex G-BJGV, ex 5N-ALT, ex G-BJGV
http://www.pbase.com/glane606/image/86569513.jpg

[Bernouli's what?]

Tail take-off
Thanks for the tip, it should work now! Seen the Belize pics already and I'm fully up to speed on that story! :ok:

[havick]

what's the deal with the camoflauge paint job, but then the bright orange? or can you change the bright orange cowls when required?

[Tail-take-off]

Bernouli's what?

ZH814 is also bristow's oldest 212 (infact oldest aircraft) although not the earliest one they ever had sn 30504 was abandoned in Iran following the revolution in 1979.

Built in 1971 your aircraft was utilised on many bristow operations around the world including Indonesia, Iran, UK, Nigeria, Trinidad and was also regitered in Bermuda as were all the Bristow overseas aircraft at one time.

It's departure from Iran following the revolution is an interesting story which can be found in the bristow book "Leading fron the front" (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K6CZ1G09L._AA240_.jpg).

http://209.196.171.35/images/iran212slorries.jpg

http://209.196.171.35/images/212s_redhill_big.jpg

http://209.196.171.35/images/redhill11212s.jpg

[nodrama]

Army a/c in non-combat and training role, hence the cam paint scheme.

As for the day-glow orange....try finding a down-bird in the jungle or swamp without them.

Orange bits can be easily removed if required.

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMS1RX48PEw

[havick]

nodrama,

cheers, that's what I thought, thanks for confirming

[chcoffshore]

Bernouli's what?

Nice picture, how long ago was it taken?

[Tail-take-off]

Anyone know what happened to Bristow Bell212 G-BOEP? I flew it in Australia in 1993 as VH-BEU.



Last heard of in Nigeria registered 5N-BEN but I don't think there are any 212s there anymore.

[Bernouli's what?]

chc,
I took that pic about 3 months ago at a site known as LP414 in the southern Ulu Labi, Brunei. I'll put in a couple more (as they're ex-Bristow aircraft, I guess it's relevant to this thread)
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v128/118/114/571987173/n571987173_368861_564.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v128/118/114/571987173/n571987173_368860_202.jpg
These were both taken during a mountain flying trip to the Mulu National Park in Sarawak in July this year.

[chcoffshore]

Thanks!:ok:

[Tail-take-off]

as they're ex-Bristow aircraft


Are they not still Bristow aircraft? I thought the MOD leased them.

Please do post some more photos of them. They are indeed relevant.:ok:

[FayeDeck]

I had the honour of taking ZH814 through 30000 flying hours, it clocked it whilst sat in a river in the Temburong area of Brunei. Hope the photos work............photobucket virgin alert!!

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee182/FayeDeck/DSC00744.jpg

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee182/FayeDeck/DSC00760.jpg

[FayeDeck]

Blimey it worked, thanks for the instructions Heliport

[Tail-take-off]

ZH814 may be the oldest 212 and 30000 hours is indeed a huge milestone for any helicopter but it is not the highest houred 212. 9Y-TEY has over 32000 hours as does G-BFER. Quite which component is the origional I'm not sure perhaps just the manufacturer's serial number plate.

[forget]

Speaking of Brunei, here's one of the Sperry AFCS equipped 212s. Seletar Singapore, before delivery. 1980'ish.

PS. The reg above the Att Ind appears to read AMDB 131.
PPS. Second thoughts, I think it's 132. Whatever.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/212.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

All the other photos from Bristow ops UNST-Ninian Field 1977-1993 (http://http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=285535&highlight=unst+ninian) have shown up here so we might as well have this one to complete the set:ok:

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd32/bluesafari/northsea/UnstJanuary1980-1.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

G-BOEV FTS R22 Crashed September 1989 during solo exercise. Came down just to the East of the M23.


http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-BOEV.jpg

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.bertha.person.dk/bristow_helicopters.htm

http://www.bertha.person.dk/images/B206%20S76%20AS332L%20resized.jpg

[helipixman]

Does anyone have any recent photos of the following:-

G-BFER (based Mauritania)
G-BIXV (Kazakhstan)
G-KAZA (Kazakhstan)
G-KAZB (Kazakhstan)
G-OIBU (Mauritania)

Helipixman

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/GImages/G-BFER002.jpg

[purge98]

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1045111M.jpg

[Schinthe]

This Photo of EP-HAM ,a very fickle Agusta 204B with a Gnome engine,taken in 1974 in Bushehr Iran ,may bring (mixed) memories to some of the oldies out there.http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc229/Schinthe/DadsPhotos56.jpg

[heliski22]

The picture of G-AVII brings back some memories alright! I had Steve Bell and Steve Menham (Dave Price did a couple of sorties, too) for an IR course a few years ago

[Tail-take-off]

From Bristows S61Ns To Amsterdam (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=298250) Thread

http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/temp/3sar_2.jpg

See also http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=294356

http://www.crcshetland.co.uk/temp/oc.jpg

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/PICT0067.jpg

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/johnwgrant030903/PICT0064.jpg

http://www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/uploaded_images/ST07/wk39/ST39%20Oscar%20Leaving%202.jpg?0.4879605914212134
http://www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/uploaded_images/ST07/wk39/ST39%20Oscar%20Leaving%203.jpg?0.8048653697049062

http://img180.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-12978/loc361/47046_Small_DSC_0048_122_361lo.jpg

And lets not forget the people:

Back from left: Eoin Harcus, Norman Leask, Gerald Flaws, Paul Whyte, Martin Colvin, John Grant, Gordon Rae, John Thomson, Martin Naylor, Jimmy Livitt, Friedie Manson. Second row: Peter Hutchison, Steve Jones, Andy McAlister, Terry Mooney. Third row: Donald McDermott, Dave Ellis, Mike Cockerill. Front: Bob Simpson, Paul Bentley, Kieran Murray.
Photo: Jim Nicolson
http://www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/uploaded_images/ST07/wk39/ST39%20Bristow.jpg

[forget]

Small world. I've got a tail rotor blade cuff sitting in front of me, full of pens and 'stuff'. It came off 204B EP-HAM. Today's useless information MkI. ;)

[Tail-take-off]

And from the early days

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3100/copyofgbdocgbdiigj3.jpg

[tascats]

S92 at Sumburgh

http://www2.propichosting.com/Images/450011190/69.jpg

[carholme]

Ladies/Gentlemen;

I worked for Bristow at Ras Shukheir in the 70s. It is so great to see all of the pictures being posted and I am trying to locate my albums of Egypt to post a few of my own.

Regards

carholme

[212man]

Tascats: great photo!

[1helicopterppl]

Any Bristow chaps out there with jpgs of UK registered S76's G-KAZA & G-KAZB based in Atyrau or B412 G-OIBU based in Mauretania ? let's see how the other half live !

[1helicopterppl]

really enjoyed photo's featured in Bristow photo's, are there any up to date pics available from Nouakchott, Mauretania (B412 G-OIBU) or Atyrau, Kazakhstan, (S76C's G-KAZA & G-KAZB), & where are B212's G-BALZ & G-BFER these days ?

[Tail-take-off]

Both G-BFER & G-BALZ are in Mauritania.

[Tail-take-off]

Awarded to: CAPTAIN DEREK JONES


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/FlyingLawyer/DerekJones.jpg


After leaving the RAF in 1977 and gaining his civil fixed-wing and rotary licences, he worked as a QHI at Bristow Helicopters Flying School at Redhill Aerodrome for the next 20 years, becoming a CAA Flight Examiner and TRE and then Chief Flying Instructor. Bristow’s school trained mainly Bristow sponsored trainee pilots and was the largest professional helicopter pilot training school in the UK, producing helicopter pilots of the highest calibre. Derek Jones’ exemplary standards and personal capability were crucial elements in achieving and maintaining such excellence in basic flying training.He also held approval to conduct Helicopter Flying Instructor courses and became widely recognised as one of the best civil helicopter instructor trainers in the country.

[DECUFAULT]

Well done young man...:D

[BRASSEMUP]

Wasn't that 2006? or this year?

[TiPwEiGhT]

Earlier this year I believe.

[BRASSEMUP]

okidoki:ok:

[africacorps]

G-BFER is on its way to Rehill then FBH,finished in Mauritania,left Las Palmas 0700gmt Wednesday 7th Nov. Understand a FBH 212 will replace written off 212 in Belize.

[bellboy]

G-OIBU in Montpellier en route Nouakchott
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff150/jamiehelicopter/PA020190.jpg
Tiger in Scatsta
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff150/jamiehelicopter/P9210183.jpg

[mazakari]

G-JSAR
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l233/jonnygsxr/JSAR2.jpg

maz

[paddyboy]

When did you visit NWI?

[mazakari]

It's an old picture. Clearing out some old CD's and found one with a few pictures on it, including this one I took of JSAR. It was passing through NWI for fuel. :ok:

maz

[Mikila1A]

See a picture from Scatca here a a big grin came to my face....

During S92 Sim training I had the pleasure of meeting;

A Frenchman whom had a love for "napping",

and, A Belgium that had a very scary laugh,

are they still in the Shetalnds?

Great guys, great fun!:D

[shetlander]

The Frenchman with a "love for napping", is still flying out of EGPM - Scatsta.

Not to sure about the "Belgium with a very scary laugh" :E

Cheers,
Jonathan :cool:

[Tail-take-off]

http://209.196.171.35/images/guernsey3.jpg

[Pat Gerard]

What kind of photos ? From Italy or Aberdeen ?

[Pat Gerard]

The "Mad laughters" Belgian and the "napping " Frenchman are still in Scatsta ( Shetlands ). Who are you ? Where you in the classroom, the sim, the bar, the beach, the restaurants ? Anyway, how are you doing ? Still flying in your iceberg country ? :zzz::zzz::zzz:

[Mikila1A]

Holy crap....your awake:O

mmmm...the beach....boy I long for those days. Giving the RIPS a real good workout here already this year. Bloody weather....@#$%!:ugh:

Stay safe, say hello to the misses for us, and also the crazy Belgian!

regards,

Ronnie

[Rosh]

Some pics from last year, taken while operating out of Mombasa, Kenya.
Nov 2006 - Feb 2007



G-TIGB, Having been freighted to Nairobi, ready to be ferried to Mombasa.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/Kenya2006183.jpg




En Route. Nairobi - Mombasa.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/0074.jpg




En Route. Nairobi - Mombasa. Tsavo East National Park.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/0076.jpg




G-BMCX at Mombasa
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/Kenya20060005.jpg




On the Chikyu
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/Kenya2006272.jpg





Returning to Mombasa
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC00588.jpg





G-TIGB returning to Mombasa.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/Kenya2006423.jpg




Nyali Beach Hotel. Home for a couple of months. It was tough!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/Kenya2006329.jpg

[Fareastdriver]

Old CX must have been the last one in the original Bristow colours having been out on a limb in China. I last flew her on the 8th Feb 2005. Three days later I turned sixty five and I wasn't allowed to fly her any more. I've had to fly Aussie and Chinese 332s ever since.

[David Eyre]

G-TIGB is now with Bristow in Australia as VH-BWJ.
G-BMCX was flown to Luqa, Malta on 29 Aug 2007 (still in the old colours) and repainted by MedAvia into the new colours. It departed Malta on 14 Sep 2007, and flew to Antwerp (Belgium) and Den Helder (Netherlands) on 15 Sep 2007.
G-BMCX was then photographed at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on a ferry flight (probably to Perth, WA) on 16 October 2007:
G-BMCX in Malta (old & new colours):
http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=G-BMCX&view=true
G-BMCX in Belgium (new colours):
http://www.planepictures.net/netsearch4.cgi?srch=G-BMCX&srng=2&stype=reg
G-BMCX in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on 16 Oct 2007(photo by Andrew Whitton):
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb260/ajwhitton/G-BMCX005cropped.jpg
Regards,
David

[MamaPut]

DE,

What's happened, has there been an invasion? Last time I was there, Den Helder was in the Netherlands :}

[Rosh]

Some pics taken while operating G-BMCX out of Misurata Air Base, Libya.
March 2007 - June 2007


Sunrise.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG5392.jpg


Offshore Passengers arrive from Tripoli by Fixed-Wing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG5374.jpg


Setting off

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG5369.jpg


Misurata Air Base

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG0301.jpg


Coasting out over the Med.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG5815.jpg


Libyan Coastline

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG5414.jpg


En route Misurata to Tripoli. Leptis Magna, Roman Ruins

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG5397.jpg


About to set off.

Left to right: Kieran Murray Jnr. (aka 'The Ginger Ninja'), and myself.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG5811.jpg


G-BMCX having a wash.
Left to Right: Mike wood, John Spencer, Donal "Lil' Dude" Carey, and 2 Local staff. (Abdul and ?)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG0290.jpg


Standing back and admiring the handywork....a phrase came to mind. - "You can't polish a terd."
As David Erye says in a previous post, she's had a well earned respray.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/CIMG0293-1.jpg

[206Fan]

Rosh, cheers for sharing them puma shots, love seeing pics of it.. Have you any videos of the puma??

[Inverted81]

Thanks all for these fantastic shots.....

I never realised bristows operations were so far reaching!!

As for a napping frenchman..... ah ha thats you! trying to get you transferred to brent radar...... sometimes takes a while... now i know why ;) Honestly tho, you guys do a fantastic job up there, keep up the great work! (when are you getting your next 2 new S92 toys?)

81

[Tail-take-off]

Kieran Murray Jnr???

He was a spotty schoolboy when I used to fly with his Dad in Sumburgh!

[Rosh]

Tail-take-off, He's still a spotty schoolboy!!! A ginger one, aswell!

Davy07, unfortunately I don't have any video of the puma. Sad to say, I'm no longer on the 332.

Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course.

[budgie 75]

Rosh i've sent you a pms:ok:

[206Fan]

unfortunately I don't have any video of the puma. Sad to say, I'm no longer on the 332.

Currently flying the S76C++ out of Miri, Malaysian Borneo. I'll post some pics in due course.Ah no worries mate.. How do you find the S-76C compared to the 332??

I always love watching this Medic S-76 landing, god it sounds class:ooh:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKFF1bvlqNk

[bell222]

what a bummer :):)

[Tail-take-off]

The Evening Standard's Bristow Operated WS51 with it's unfortunate registration:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Tail-take-off/G-ANAL.jpg

(photo: Augusta Westland)

[SASless]

Reckon pilots flying that one were the butt of some jokes?:E

[Plank Cap]

Tail Take Off - the butt of all jokes she must have been, but a Widgeon, I think not. The Widgeon had a rather more pointy nose; G-ANAL appears to be a Dragonfly/S51.

[Plank Cap]

Here you go:

http://www.aviastar.org/foto/west_widgeon_1.jpg

http://www.aviastar.org/foto/west_widgeon.jpg

[David Eyre]

Hi All,

If anyone wants to check the type, current registration or past registrations of any helicopter, I can recommend the Rotorspot website. It has historic helicopter registers for almost all countries:
http://www.geocities.com/rotorspot/historic.htm

Regarding G-ANAL, it later became G-ANZL (wonder if it was reregistered because it was the butt of many jokes?!, and later written-off). Here's the entry from Rotorspot:

G-ANAL Westland-Sikorsky 51 Dragonfly Mk.1A (construction number WA/H/90) G-ANAL,G-ANZL · · · · · » [w/o]


Regards,

David Eyre

[Tail-take-off]

Thanks for the correction Plank Cap. The WS51 was a bit before my time. I got my info from here:

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=G-ANAL

where it is listed as type WS51, popular name Widgeon.

Perhaps someone should tell the CAA!

[Tail-take-off]

Ditching photos thread containing BHL & BCAL photos here. (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=254126)

[Rosh]

Some pics, taken this summer, while doing conversion training on the S76A+ followed by a C+ sim conversion.
Norwich. July 2007
West Palm Beach. August 2007


G-BIBG at Norwich

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC00416.jpg



G-BIBG

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC00420.jpg



Norwich Hangar

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC00476.jpg



Getting Set for some night deck landing practice.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC01994.jpg


S76C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC00654.jpg



S76 C+ Sim. Flight Safety, West Palm Beach, Florida

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/rjaypalan/DSC00618.jpg

[Hedski]

Ah, FSI in Palm Beach. The catered lunch on a Thursday, infinite cookies in the afternoons straight from the oven. Sod the sims and groundschool, I put on at least a stone in weight while I was there.
How's Malaysia anyway dude?
H

PS: not being picky, ok pedantic maybe, but that's a 92 sim in that there photo.
76 one's never looked that shiny, too many GOMERs knockin'em about.;)

[chcoffshore]

Bugger beat me too it........Yes that's the S92 sim!!!!!! Ah the cookies and popcorn........:}

[chopperd]

S92 sim really? I'd have another look around the cockpit next time you go to work.:ok:

[Rosh]

You're right!! 92 sim it is?? :ouch: There are some 'eagle-eyes' out there!

They all looked the same to me from the outside! Maybe, I was too busy with the cookies to notice the differences.

Rather than editing the post or removing the pic, if you look at the photo while shaking your head from side to side rapidly, and blinking simultaneously, it's a dead ringer for the 76C+ sim!!!!:ok:

[Tail-take-off]

A few interesting pics here (http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=Bristow%20Helicopters&u=operator).

[Tail-take-off]

just stumbled across this:

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k126/candidweddings/S61/SR61pb.jpg

[Oldlae]

As Chief Eng of G-APWN in 1978 I noticed that the paint scheme of the pax door didn't match the rest of the aircraft, around that time we lost a pax door over Reigate Hill, we had a few problems with loose doors and it wasn't until a student pilot mentioned that he had kicked the emergency door release with his right foot whilst trying to find the step that we realised we had found the problem. This would have occurred after the aircraft had been pre-flighted so the damaged safety wire would not have been found. G-APWN is now at Coventry.
I also had WN in Abu Dhabi in the early 70's, I did a test flight with Jerry Beecher RIP as we had had several computer faults, we took off and climbed to about 100 feet when the engine ran down Jerry, of course, immediately raised the collective but we were sinking fast, I was shouting go into manual (throttle) when suddenly the effect of raising the collective came in just before we were going to hit the ground rather hard and we fortunately landed softly. After looking at the actions taken in the past we changed the loom between the computer and the throttle actuator and solved all the previous intermittent problems. Jerry was a good friend, we hacked our way around the Abu Dhabi golf course for months. The greens were brown and the only grass was found in the bunkers. After playing the round, in the nineteenth hole, the Club supplied salt tablets with bottles of filtered water, we dutifully dissolved these tablets in a glass of water and drank them until we tasted the salt in the belief that we had replaced the salt that we had lost whilst playing in 120 degrees F. I have never found out if we were right?

[Tail-take-off]

http://www.captonline.com/assets/images/sedgwick.JPG

[Cyclic Hotline]

It looks like new.

And there is a new fangled Wessex hovering in the background! You just have to love the good old days! :)

[paddyboy]

More here (http://www.helitavia.com/aircraft.htm).

[Oldlae]

Bristow bought 6 ex-RN Whirlwinds in 1969 and converted them to WS55 Series 3 with the Gnome engine, initially the airframes were sent to Westland to have the new nose fitted to accomodate the Gnome engine. Bristow eventually bought the jigs from Westland and finished the project. I started the initial stripping of the 6 airframes and then took delivery of the converted airframes in Abu Dhabi a couple of years later.

[Taff Missed]

And I ferried the last of those Series 3 Whirlwinds to Abu Dhabi with Jack Moss in Sept 73. But the writing was on the wall for the 55 by then as the hot new Bell 212's were arriving on the scene.

Taff

[SASless]

Was Jack wearing that same old tweed jacket?

[mtoroshanga]

with polos in one pocket and the petty cash in the other.

[soggyboxers]

Rosh,
Come now, it's not even in the same building as the C+ sim. You must have been on the same ghastly slot times as I was to be so disoriented! Did you manage to get a look at the 92 and Blackhawk sims (inside that is ;)) while you were there?

Taff,
Them there new fangled 212s didn't arrive in Nigeria for many years after 1973. We were still flying them, with the fixed floats, just like in John Eacott's photograph in 1978/79. The big advantage was that if the weather got very bad in rainy season you could land on one of the canals, put the spike in on the bank and shut down if need be until the rain cleared. They made the Wessex look very modern there too. I seem to remember we had a problem which resulted in them being flown in manual throttle the whole time.

SAS,
Jack never wore a tweed jacket! He wore a multi-purpose No. 4 tweed garment - for work, for winter (buttons done up!), for summer (unbuttoned) and quite frequently for sleeping after a few too many pints of ale :).

mtoroshanga,
One of the pockets was for his polos and the other for the petty cash and his fags (because of course, the petty cash accounts were always kept on the backing paper from the foil inside his fag packets and the cash inside a used fag packet so it didn't 'go astray lad'). I remember doing his line check in a 58T one time and when I switched off the Decca he never did manage to get it sorted out again (Oh heck, I can't see them Decometers without me specs and I seem to have left them behind today!), but we still got back to Aberdeen, on ETA with no problem :}

[SASless]

Sogs ol' Man,

Do you know anyone who has done the Decca approach into Sumbrugh in an S-58T in the dark while single pilot?

If you do.....he deserves a whole lot of credit....but must have been an Octopus armed genius!

What ever happened to "Sword Stick"? Seems he ferried a Whirlwind to Nigeria and then later took it to Egypt or some such place. That was back in the compass and map era of helicopter flying.

[bondu]

Gerry was the QHI at Middle Wallop who foolishly sent me on my first helicopter solo! That was way back in January 1979, in a Bell 47G-4A, reg G-AXKW. Before my fisrt flight with him, I was told that he only carried two chinagraph pencils: a brown and a red. If a student warranted a 'green' he would borrow one from another instructor! Talk about cr*pping oneself!!:eek:

Last saw Gerry in Unst in March/April 1989, when he was flying the Bristow S61N to the Ninian field.
Anyone know where he is now?

bondu :)

[John Eacott]

Do you know anyone who has done the Decca approach into Sumbrugh in an S-58T in the dark while single pilot?

If you do.....he deserves a whole lot of credit....but must have been an Octopus armed genius

DANAC was supposed to make life easier: unless you had a slippage which went unnoticed until Sumburgh appeared in a gap in the clouds when you were calling 30 miles out :ouch: